State Ex Rel. Taylor v. Townshend

Lovins, President:

The State of West Virginia at the relation of Edgar B. Sims, Auditor of said State, hereinafter sometimes referred to as “the auditor”, and Harvey C. Taylor, Sheriff of Cabell County, West Virginia, respectively' instituted separate actions by way of notice of motion against E. V. Townshend and Globe Indemnity Company, surety on Townshend’s bond as commissioner of school lands; the same bond and facts being involved in both actions, they were tried together. A trial by jury was waived and the trial court, after hearing the evidence, found for defendants in each action as…